When I Opened My Eyes I Was a Superstar - Chapter 31

#31

One more time Ok?! (1)

#One more time, OK?! (1)

Do-wook was well aware of the fact that Park Tae-hyung was good at dancing, but he also had a knack for acrobatics by watching Tae-hyung Park’s practice. Back tumbling was an easy move for Taehyung Park.

“Me…alone?”

“oh? That’s right, because Taehyung has a light body. The interlude part was already so mediocre that I thought it might be boring. “Do you want to try it?”

Taehyung Park was embarrassed, but Yoontae Noh enthusiastically accepted his opinion, even applauding.

I gathered a team of dancers and asked them to do it first on behalf of the members. A team of dancers standing in the same formation as the KK members danced with Taehyung Park’s new choreography, adding Dowook’s opinions.

“Wow fantastic.”

The chorus was choreographed so perfectly that it caught the attention of Kim Won, who watched the dance and muttered.

Noh Yoon-tae called Taehyung. I removed the dancer team member who was in Taehyung Park’s place and ordered Taehyung Park. The other members had no problems with the choreography, but they first had to check whether Taehyung Park could do the back tumbling at the right time.

Noh Yun-tae matched the chorus part and played the music.

Okay, okay, I-

Tak-!

Six dancers made movements as if they were shooting at Taehyung Park, and Taehyung Park stamped his feet to the beat. With light movements, I did a back tumbling to the beat of the beginning of the interlude.

It was a tease lighter than the flapping of a butterfly’s wings. It fit perfectly with the rhythm of ‘You’ and made the song feel alive.

‘As expected, there are parts where Taehyung dances several times better.’

Dowook was impressed. I thought it was a good section when the dancer team demonstrated it, but when Taehyung Park did it, I thought it was beautiful.

Kim Won whistled with his hand. The other members also murmured, “You’re the best,” and gave a small round of applause. I also thought that I couldn’t wait to practice the choreography with Taehyung Park and stand on stage together.

***

Meanwhile, the popularity of ‘Sorry But I Love You’ continued.

Although there are still few people who recognize their faces at once, the KK members were able to easily hear their songs even at a convenience store they briefly stopped by.

KK, who took first place on Song of Life for three consecutive weeks, also held a mini fan meeting with fans in a small vacant lot behind the SVS broadcasting station. KK, who met fans in person for the first time, also took a group photo with about 150 fans gathered in the vacant lot.

I had several music broadcast schedules, including a radio schedule, and even performed at a couple of events with names I had never heard of. Meanwhile, the KK members were gradually feeling their popularity.

‘With this momentum, it’s a bit close, but it’s possible to reach #1 for 4 weeks in a row!’

Dowook checked the music and album performance every day, generated statistics, and analyzed them.

And as Do-wook expected, surprisingly, KK took first place in Life Song for four consecutive weeks.

It was tied with Man to Man’s first album score. In terms of album sales alone, KK was lagging behind by 50,000 to 60,000 copies, and in terms of sound recording performance, KK was on the better side.

After taking first place for 4 weeks in a row, the air around us changed a bit. Rather than just being a rookie who creates a small sensation and passes by, ‘Is it true?’ Reactions began to arise.

The following week, the scores of solo female singers and other singers soared, while KK’s scores declined and her ranking fell a few places, but she still maintained a high ranking. KK had already achieved results that exceeded expectations.

KK immediately stopped activities for the title song to prepare for the follow-up song. It was good timing as the midterm exam period was approaching for student members still in high school.

After about two weeks of preparation for the follow-up song, each member had time to concentrate on their studies. In the meantime, in order to prevent fans from leaving, they continued to upload selfie photos of themselves through the SNS account created by the fan-marketing team, and the fan-marketing team edited images of the members staying in their dorm and uploaded them to iTube.

Just like that, the day of the first performance of the follow-up song dawned. In order to prove that they were not rookies who would disappear after just one song, they needed to show above average performance in follow-up songs as well.

It was the day when KK would be judged for being ‘real’.

***

The first broadcast performance of the follow-up song ‘You’ was held on a cable channel that specializes in music broadcasting.

Three days ago, Hit Entertainment released concept photos and music videos for KK’s follow-up song on its official website. With the news of the follow-up song being broadcast, fans began streaming music, and ‘You’, which had previously not been in the top 100 of the music charts, was able to enter the top 80 on the day of the broadcast.

The title song ‘Sorry but I Love You’ was still maintaining its ranking around 10th place.

‘Even if the group name is just K-K, if we want people to listen to our songs, we need to make our name more known and at least the next album has to be as good as this title song…’

Do-wook thought as he looked at the music charts. It was definitely nice to have a personal cell phone so I could use the Internet whenever I had time.

‘Even though I stopped working, Man to Man’s You’re So Pretty is in the top 30.’

That was when Dowook was even checking the music scores of Man to Man.

“Do-wook is being mean?”

Jung Yoon-gi, who had changed into his stage costume, said a word to Do-wook, who was sitting on the sofa in the waiting room, as he passed by.

This stage costume was close to everyday wear with a light feel, in keeping with the light mood of the song. Although it was casual clothes, he seemed to have put a little more thought into it, giving off the so-called ‘boyfriend look’ as if he were going on a date on a nice spring day.

It was based on a stylish graphic T-shirt matched with a denim jacket or hooded denim jacket, but Dowook was wearing a denim jacket over a white short-sleeved T-shirt. The blue color suited Dowook’s face very well.

“Shouldn’t I take a selfie and post it?”

As soon as Seok Ji-hoon finished fixing his hair and sat down next to Do-wook, he glanced at Do-wook and said,

“……hmm.”

While Do-wook was hesitating, Ahn Hyeong-seo came running and pointed the camera at him.

Click, click, click. Ahn Hyeong-seo pressed the camera button three times in a row and selected the best photo out of the three.

Hyungseo Ahn went straight to KK’s Facenote account and attached a photo with a short comment. Then, in an instant, the number of recommendations increased and comments started flowing.

-Bisam looks crazy ㄷ ㄷ

-Hyungseo, please take my sister’s bankbook! Because of my brother, I changed my data plan to unlimited data!

-I think this is the first time Do-wook oppa and Ji-hoon oppa have been filmed together? Jihoon oppa♡♡♡

-Do-Wook… When you make that kind of face… My heart hurts so much… Hello, please call 119… Do-ah… Take my heart…

-You have to call from 112. Isn’t it?

Fans called the combination of these three people ‘Visam’, or ‘Visual Triangle’. This was because he had the best visuals among the KK members.

Hyeong-seo Ahn let out a satisfied smile as he looked at the comments that were posted right away. Seok Ji-hoon also smiled proudly.

Their Facenote account was rapidly increasing in followers, already reaching over 10,000 followers.

‘Hyungseo Ahn’s constant updates to his Facenote account are of great help.’

Facenote is still wildly popular, but in the future, Facenote will become an essential social network service for young people to the extent that it will become the center of Internet marketing. It was clear that having a large number of followers on Facenote would provide some kind of ‘power’.

Dowook thought he should use Facenote more and looked at other Facenote accounts on his phone.

Then I also saw Man to Man’s Facenote account.

Man to Man was using the Facenote account to only upload music videos and teasers. Therefore, even though it was more popular than KK, it had slightly fewer followers than KK.

‘Oh, maybe by now?’

Do-wook, who was looking at Man-to-Man’s facenote, opened the Internet window when a thought occurred to him.

[Man to Man Room]

‘Room’ was one of the large community sites. It was the most free of all community sites. To put it in a good way, it was free, but in other words, there were too many restrictions, so it was a place where the most negative issues arose.

Swearing and slander were rampant, and rumors about his personal life were often spread.

Since Man to Man debuted quite a while ago and is very popular, I thought that a separate Man to Man room would have been created in the room, so I searched for it, and as expected, a ‘Man to Man Room’ was created.

Dowook searched with keywords such as [Seojun Kangjun School].

As expected, stories were spreading about Seojun’s real name being Seo Kangjun and where he went to school.

‘Hana High School…’

However, Bomyeong went to a different high school than Seo Kang-jun. To find out which high school he was attending, he first had to find out Seo Kang-jun’s middle school. Next, I planned to find out which high school Kim Bo-myeong attended among the graduates of that school.

‘Then you will be able to find out what happened to the old me, i.e. Kim Bo-myung.’

Dowook’s eyes deepened as he looked at the phone screen.

The music broadcast staff came in and told us to prepare for the stage.

Dowook put down his phone and straightened his clothes. Now it was time to focus on the stage again.

***

The first music broadcast performance of the follow-up song went as planned.

As expected, the choreography prepared by Taehyung Park attracted a lot of attention. The moment Park Taehyung did the back tumbling, a loud cheer erupted from the audience.

It was by far the loudest cheer in any broadcast.

Most of the staff were busy praising Taehyung Park, who was showing off his quick movements and spinning 360 degrees.

“There are so many talented friends at KK.”

The current producer of Life Song went so far as to say that to Oh Baek-ho separately. There was no need for the current producer to give lip service to K.K., who is still a rookie, so he meant it sincerely.

“It’s not because they’re our kids, but because they’re kids that are going to be really big.”

Director Oh Baek-ho also answered without being able to hide his satisfied smile.

Taehyung Park’s fans were compiling and distributing videos of Taehyung Park backtumbling on each stage. Thanks to this, it became a bit of a hot topic on the Internet.

It wasn’t a strong song, but it was a good song to listen to, so the music rankings gradually rose and entered the top 20. In Today’s Song of Life, KK’s song was ranked 6th.

Although it didn’t seem like the rankings would go up any further, everyone was evaluating it as an excellent activity for a follow-up song.

While the company and the members were all satisfied, Dowook was the only one who felt disappointed.

‘Was it too much to get to first place with a follow-up song? There is some way…’